We all have habits, automatic behaviors that stop us in the way of
personal evolution and encourage daily to inquire or remember, Who am I? He Restlessness in the face of this type of question irritates the psyche and emotions, leaving a existential emptiness and an inability to release consciousness into light.
From the point of view of Yoga, meditation constitutes an ideal technique to calm the emotions and allow the depths of the spirit to break through.
The Hindu sage Patañjalì, in his classic work, Yoga Sùtra, affirms that in ”Samyama se they practice: dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samàdhi (enlightenment) Same time". In fact, the explanation of this text indicates that these states of consciousness are each the unfolding of the previous one, to give an example practical, it would be like climbing the steps of the same ladder at once.
From this clarification it follows that before being able to meditate, it is necessary to master dharana and before pratýahàra (sensory abstraction), so that the next state arises Successfully Meditating implies having access to a state of linear intuition or
superconsciousness, which can only be reached once the mind is calmed, in this way emerges a higher state of consciousness previously overshadowed by the processes ordinary mental.
Ramakrishna compared the human mind to a restless monkey that has takena alcohol he has been bitten by a scorpion and his hair has also been set on fire! ...
In the same way that we cannot distinguish the bottom of a lake from water turbulent, a person cannot know the depths of herself if her mind (personality) is agitated and unstable.
Returning to Patanjali, in the first sentence of his aphorisms he indicates: “To prevent modifications of the thinking principle, leads to meditation ”when a mind Concentrate is directed steadily at any object with the purpose of passing through "the veil ”, meditation is performed, therefore, concentration is the molding of the organ and meditation is the exercise of the same, all that is capable of lending sustained attention on a theme, image, mantra, for some time, without allowing let the mind wander, it is in a position to meditate.
It is also said that meditation consists of bringing to waking consciousness some realization of superconsciousness, in order to create by the power of inspiration, a channel by which the force of some divine or spiritual principle flows into the personality.
Regarding this, Edward Carpenter in one of his poems, states:
“I emerge from the serene night and flap my wings. The tears and regrets stopped. Life and death are displayed before me, I breathe in the sweet ether of the divine breath "...
Obviously the peace and creativity that emanates from his words comes from within, He has transcended despair and misery through stony roads, has felt the touch of the Invisible Hand.
The experience gained through meditation reveals the emergence of a new type of consciousness.
